Kava
Subtitle: From Ethnology to Pharmacology (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles)
Publisher: CRC
Published: January 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415323277
Subjects: Traditional medicine & remedies; Plants, Medicinal; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Therapeutic use; Pharmacology; Science / Botany; Kava plant; Kava; Kava (Beverage)
First sentence: I can remember the evening gatherings when I was young at my home in the Fiji Islands when kava stock was pounded into powder in wooden mortars with metal rods, and then used in the preparation of the characteristic infusion.